Ugo Chirico
CEO, CTO & Founder at JIProlog
Naples, Campania, Italy
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Top SchoolUgo Chirico is a serial founder and technology leader with 11+ years of experience who currently leads Cyberneid and Quantum2pi as CEO/CTO, blending cybernetics, electronic identity and post-quantum cryptography. He moves fluently between roles—architect, project manager, CTO and technical advisor—bringing deep hands-on expertise in smart cards, PKI, EMV, mobile security and AI-driven systems. His background includes founding JIProlog and long-term contributions to industrial eID and middleware projects such as Italy’s CIE, as well as creating cross-platform cryptographic libraries and mobile PKI solutions. Ugo combines academic training in physics and cybernetics with practical R&D, having applied semantic intelligence and machine learning in both research and product settings. He is notable for bridging low-level crypto and embedded systems (JavaCard, SIM-based PKI) with cloud and AI initiatives, including early work on SMS/VoIP encryption and biometric smart-card SSO. Based in Naples, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a rare mix of legacy system mastery and forward-looking quantum and AI cybersecurity research.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Physics and Cybernetics, Master's Degree Physics and Cybernetics at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (191)
infinite-scroll10
security10
smartcard10
middleware10
javacard10
uicollectionviewlayout10
prolog-interpreter10
tokend10
prolog10
sliders10
opensc10
pkcs10
signing9
ftps9
ftp9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jiprolog/jiprolog
Aug 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:347 commits, 1 PR, 173 pushes in 7 years 1 month
prolog-interpreterpure-javacross-platformjavainterpreter
jiprolog/jipgui
Aug 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:92 commits, 11 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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